warning against the growth of \u201chuman weeds,\u201d353 speaking to Ku Klux Klan rallies, opining that the \u201caboriginal Australian\u201d was \u201cthe lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development,\u201d354 and warning the New York legislature that<\/p>\n
\nThe Jewish people and Italian families who are filling the insane asylums, who are filling our feeble-minded institutions, these are the ones the tax payers have to pay for the upkeep of, and they are increasing the budget of the State, the enormous expense of the State is increasing because of the multiplication of the unfit in this country and in the State.355\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sanger even dreamed of establishing a vast American concentration camp for \u201cmorons, mental defectives, epileptics . . . illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, [and] dope-fiends.\u201d356 In all, she wanted to imprison forcibly about one-seventh of the entire American population.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, she was an enthusiastic supporter of the pioneering eugenics done by doctors of the Third Reich. A decade before the dawn of the Third Reich, her\u00a0Birth Control Review <\/em>ran a motto in its December 1921 issue that summed up a philosophy destined to be warmly received by her colleagues in Hitler\u2019s scientific elite: \u201cBirth Control: To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds!\u201d357<\/p>\nThe problem for Margaret Sanger was that all this became a tough sell in the post-war years, what with pictures of Dachau and Auschwitz circulating in classrooms and history books. So the organization she had founded changed its marketing strategy. Instead of encouraging Americans to worship racial purity, Planned Parenthood instead seized on the much more salable notion (pioneered by Freud) that we should throw off the shackles of guilt and responsibility and worship sex. This was sold as \u201cbirth control\u201d but the practical outcome was, as Chesterton famously remarked, \u201cNo birth and no control.\u201d<\/p>\n
353 Untitled speech, Margaret Sanger, January 15, 1937, 2 (Margaret Sanger Collection, Library of Congress).
\n354 Esther Katz, ed.,The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 1: The Woman Rebel <\/em>1900\u20131928 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003), 45.
\n355 Ibid.<\/em>, 363.
\n356 Margaret Sanger, \u201cA Plan for World Peace,\u201d The Birth Control Review<\/em>, April 1932, 108.
\n357 The Birth Control Review<\/em>, December 1921.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n*<\/p>\n
From my book Mary, Mother of the Son<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe gospel makes sex fully sexual and virginity virginal. The world makes sex sterile and sexualizes virgins, especially children. Why? Because a person with an obsession is a person with very little sales resistance, as Uncle Screwtape points out. And our girl Nancy is nothing if not a servant of the world.<\/p>\n
On a related note, the University of Michigan, one of our many hatcheries for drones in the thrall of the Servile State offers an exhibit on abortion as the \u201clife-sustaining act\u201d of the ages<\/a>. Training up good little stooges for the trinityt of Mammon, Moloch, and Venus that is the usurping god of these post-Christian United States.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2026aka, the Margaret Sanger Award, come on down! Who wouldn\u2019t be thrilled to be given an award named for a person who spent years warning against the growth of \u201chuman weeds,\u201d353 speaking to Ku Klux Klan rallies, opining that the \u201caboriginal Australian\u201d was \u201cthe lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-51878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture-of-death"],"yoast_head":"\n
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